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Reportedly haunted locations in Florida (4 P) Pages in category "Florida folklore" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Mules and Men is a 1935 autoethnographical collection of African-American folklore collected and written by anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. [1] The book explores stories she collected in two trips: one in Eatonville and Polk County, Florida, and one in New Orleans.
The story of José Gaspar's life and career has been told in many forms since the early 20th century. The accounts generally agree that Gaspar was born in Spain about 1756, served in some capacity with the Spanish Navy until turning to piracy around 1783, and died during a battle with the United States Navy off the coast of southwest Florida in 1821.
Contemporary descriptions of the skunk ape in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama folklore have occurred since European settlers first occupied the region. [14] In 1818, local newspapers reported a story from what is now Apalachicola, Florida, that spoke of a "man-sized monkey" raiding food stores and stalking fishermen along the shore. [15]
The Devil's Chair in Cassadaga, Florida, is a graveside bench in the cemetery that borders Cassadaga and Lake Helen.According to one local legend, an unopened can of beer left on the chair will be empty by morning.
Henry Peterson, known locally as "Ole Pete", was said to be either a roustabout, switchman or longshoreman employed by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in Port Tampa, Florida. According to the legend, Ole Pete was the strongest man in all of Florida, with the power of a black bear and agility of a panther. [ 3 ]
Florida folklore (2 C, 10 P) G. ... Pages in category "Folklore of the Southern United States" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
It also contains folklore that dates back to the Pre-Columbian era. Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared.